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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-01-24 MinutesMINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION A regular meeting of the Planning Commission was held on Monday, January 24, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. in room 219 of the City Administration Building, 113 W. Mountain, Fayetteville, Arkansas. ITEMS CONSIDERED ACTION TAKEN ADM 05-1375: O'Charley's Page 2 RZN 05-1358: Cammillieri Page 4 MEMBERS PRESENT Alan Ostner James Graves Candy Clark Jill Anthes Christian Vaught Sean Trumbo Nancy Allen Loren Shackelford Christine Myres Tabled Forwarded to City Council MEMBERS ABSENT STAFF PRESENT STAFF ABSENT Renee Thomas Jeremy Pate Kit Williams Planning Commission January 24, 2005 Page 2 Ostner: Welcome to the January 24th meeting of your Fayetteville Planning Commission. If we could have the roll call please. Roll Call: Upon the completion of roll call there were nine Commissioners present. Ostner: The first item to address is approval of minutes. We do not have a copy of the January 13`h minutes yet. We still have November 22nd and December 13`h minutes that we need to formally approve. Do I have a motion for either or both of those or is everyone comfortable with what they have read? Anthes: I haven't had a chance to read the November 22nd minutes since we just got them tonight so I would move to table those until the next meeting. Clark: Second. Ostner: I think we can just approve whatever we like and we can pass them next time. Do you feel comfortable approving December 13th minutes? Anthes: I have a couple of just very minor comments on that for clarification but other than that, I would move for approval of the December 13th minutes. Ostner: Do I have a second for the December 13`h minutes? Allen: I will second. Roll Call: Upon the completion of roll call the motion to approve the December 13th minutes was approved by a vote of 9-0-0. Thomas: The motion carries. ADM 05-1375: (O'CHARLEY'S SIGN APPEAL, 212): Submitted by RYAN KRING for property located at 8467 N SHILOH DRIVE. The property is zoned C-2, THOROUGHFARE COMMERCIAL and contains approximately 1.26 acres. The request is to approve additional wall signage and LED lighting. Ostner: The first item on our agenda was ADM 04-1375 for O'Charley's sign appeal. The applicant is caught in Chicago in a blizzard and has asked that we move to table this item. Shackelford: I will make a motion to table ADM 05-1375 to the next regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting. Clark: I will second. Ostner: Is there further discussion? Could you call the roll please? Planning Commission January 24, 2005 Page 3 Roll Call: Upon the completion of roll call the motion to table ADM 05-1375 was approved by a vote of 9-0-0. Thomas: The motion carries. Planning Commission January 24, 2005 Page 4 RZN 04-1358: (CAMILLIERI, 405): Submitted by MARIETTA CAMILLIERI for property located at 1208 N GARLAND AVENUE. The property is zoned C-1, NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL and contains approximately 0.24 acres. The request is to rezone the subject property to C-2, Thoroughfare Commercial. Ostner: The next item on our agenda is RZN 05-1358 for Camillieri if we could have the staff report please. Pate: The property is located at 1208 N. Garland Avenue. The property is currently zoned C-1, Neighborhood Commercial and contains approximately 0.24 acres. The applicant is requesting to rezone this property from C-1 to C-2, Thoroughfare Commercial. The surrounding properties are primarily C-2, Thoroughfare Commercial, the zoning designation in which the applicant is requesting. The structures are physically connected surrounding this development. It is an older subdivision known as Oak Plaza subdivision. Businesses located in this shopping plaza include Movie Gallery, Book Circus, Rock Bottom Comics, Hogs Breath Eatery and a Dollar General store. The intersection at Garland and North Street as well as Mt. Comfort does serve as a large commercial node with an assortment of residential shopping, banking, restaurant, grocery and assorted convenience commercial uses. It is a community commercial area on our future land use plan. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with current land use planning objectives and policies and is compatible with the adjacent properties which are zoned similarly. The proposed zoning is justified in order to promote an orderly and consistent development pattern. Currently, this is a small island of C-1 property in the middle of a larger C-2 zoned area. The shopping center, as I mentioned, in which this parcel is located, does serve the community at large. A consistent zoning district will enable a sound approach to redevelopment and reuse of the existing structures. It is the opinion of the Fayetteville Police Department and Fire Department that this rezoning request will not increase traffic accessing onto Mt. Comfort Road or Garland Avenue and will not appreciably increase traffic danger or congestion. With those findings, staff is recommending approval of this rezoning request. Ostner: Is the applicant present? If you could introduce yourself and give us your presentation. Camillieri: My name is Marietta Camillieri and I brought a little biography about what my shop is about if you want to hear it or you can just ask me some questions and make this real short. That is up to you guys. Ostner: We can get back with you if you would like. We will just ask questions. At this point I will open it up to the public for public comment. Would anyone like to speak to this RZN 05-1358 for Camillieri? Seeing none, I will close it to the public and bring it back to the Commission for comments. Planning Commission January 24, 2005 Page 5 Clark: To me this seems like housekeeping duties because everybody is zoned similarly. I will make the motion that we approve RZN 05-1358 to forward to the City Council. Shackelford: Second. Ostner: There is a motion and a second to forward RZN 05-1358 to the City Council with a recommendation for approval. Is there further discussion? Myres: This seems to be very straight forward. Ostner: Since most of the shopping center is already zoned C-2 and this little slice is left out it doesn't make any sense that it shouldn't all be C-2 to me. Could you call the roll please? Roll Call: Upon the completion of roll call the motion to recommend approval of RZN 05- 1358 to the City Council was approved by a vote of 9-0-0. Thomas: The motion carries.